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A Clear Majority of Utah Voters Want the Legislature to Impeach Swallow 18 Jun 2013 | 03:41 am
Update/Correction: Although the numbers posted in the topline report were released correctly yesterday, the graphic and prose for the favorability numbers posted here contained an error. The “favora...
Utah’s Supreme Court, where unanimity is the rule 11 Jun 2013 | 01:58 am
The five Justices serving on Utah’s Supreme Court are the final word when it comes to interpreting Utah law and Utah’s Constitution, yet they labor mostly in obscurity, without attracting the sort of ...
Utahns don’t know much about Utah government 4 Jun 2013 | 02:19 am
Although Americans often take pride in living in the world’s oldest democracy, American voters tend to do a very poor job answering basic questions about our political system. (Think you’re an excepti...
What is the future of the Republican nominating system? 18 Apr 2013 | 07:06 am
The Republican Central Committee recently decided that it would not change the manner by which candidates gain access to the Republican primary ballot. The decision not to change the rules creates a p...
Recap: Looking back at the 2013 Utah Legislature 27 Mar 2013 | 10:21 pm
I’ve posted tons of stats about the Utah Legislature in the past couple days. To recap, here’s a quick summary of some of what you can now find here: Do legislators work enough to justify their salary...
Who missed the most votes in 2013? 27 Mar 2013 | 09:49 pm
Utah’s Constitution limits the Legislature to convening for only 45 days each year. Once you take out the weekends, they actually meet for 33 days in a typical year. In 2013, the Utah Legislature mana...
Who ran the most bills in the 2013 Legislature? 27 Mar 2013 | 09:22 pm
Legislators vary widely in how many bills that sponsor in the Utah Legislature. Before we proceed, let’s clarify what “sponsoring” and “floor sponsoring” mean: Sponsoring. This means the legislator ca...
Who voted “nay” most often in the 2013 Utah Legislature? 27 Mar 2013 | 08:38 pm
Although most votes in the Utah Legislature pass with overwhelming 90+% majorities, there are some legislators who really like to vote “nay.” There aren’t enough of them that many votes actually fail,...
How quickly were bills passed in 2013? 27 Mar 2013 | 08:28 pm
In 2013, the Utah Legislature passed more bills than it’s passed since I started keeping track (in 2007). A total of 748 bills were introduced, of which 581 made it to a floor vote, of which 524 were ...
The closest votes in the 2013 Legislature 27 Mar 2013 | 07:27 pm
It has long been tradition that floor votes in the Utah Legislature pass with overwhelming majorities taking the same side. Democrats and Republicans alike tend to get behind the same bills. That bein...
